Carline bracket



C. D. BONSALL CARLINEy BRACKET Jan. 2z, 1 924.

Filed Sept. 19 1921 flue/ziol- Patented dan. 22, i924..

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oIIAaLEs n. PoNsALL, or PAENAssus, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIoNoE 'ro P. PI. MURPHY coIiIPANY, or PAENAssUs, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION or PENNSYLVANIA.

CARLINE BRACKET.

Application led September 19, 1921.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, CHARLES D. BoN'sALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Parnassus, in the county of YViestmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, haye invented a new and useful improvement of Carline Brackets, of which the following -'is a speciiication. l

This invention relates to improvements inl it is an object of this invention to form a bracket of this character which willembrace the top of the side plate and engage one side and support the'bottom of a car ine constructed from a commercial shape ofv angle iron. i

`While the preferred form of this invention is illustrated upon the accompanying sheet of drawing, yet it is to be understood that minor detail changes may be made without departing from the scope thereof.

ln the drawings:

Figure l is a top plan View, with pants broken away, of an angle iron carline sup ported by this improved bracket in place upon the side plate of a car.

Figure i3 is a view in side elevation of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a. top plan view of a pair of brackets as formed from a plate of metal, beforeseverance, with the outline of the plate indicated by dotted line.

Figure 4 is a view in end elevation of Figure 3.

To obtain the greatest strength and rigidity in a carline constructed of commercial angle iron, one flange should be venticaland the other horizontal, with the horizontal flange attached to the side plate by a bracket which also .forms lan additional strengthening means for the vertical flange to resist twisting movements out of the vertical as occurs from the weaving of the car when it is in motion.

In accordance with this invention each Serial No. 501,696.

pair of brackets for supporting the opposite ends of a carline of this type are pressed from a rectangular plate of metal, are similar with the supports for the vertical flange oppositionally disposed, as is necessary as shown in Fig. l, and are formed without any excess metal to be trimmed olf. This improved method of forming the brackets comprisesthe pressing of rectangular sheets of'. metal of the necessary thickness to give the desired strength.v The sheets f are of twice the width of a single bracket and' approximately of the same' length as the ove-rall length of a single bracket. yThe method includes the pressingdown of a flange along the width of the plate on one edge and the pressing down inthe samel direction of a rectangular portion from the Yopposite edge,

which depression is symmetrical with re-- spect to the center line at right angles to that edge and extends inward towards the flanged edge until the distance from the flange and thedepressed wall is such as to be able to embrace the side plate to be fused on the car. In the pressing rectangular walls are formed on each side of the center line which `draws in the metal of the body of the plate, as shown in Figures: 3 and 4. The angles of the flange, parallel depressed walls and depressed body of the plate between these walls to the normal main body of the plate are regulated by dies to correspond to the top of the side plate to be embraced to support the carline end in proper position. The pressed sheet is then severed -in half along its center lineas indicated by line 5-5 on Figures 3 and 4, so that the operation of pressing and severing forms two complete brackets, one of each end of a single carline.

Each bracket thus formed comprises a' main body l adapted to rest upon the top of the side plate 2 and be secured thereto, with the flange 3 depending on the exterior and engaging the outer surface of the side plate, with a depending wall 4 engaging the inner side of the side plate which wall continues inward at an angle to the side plate to form a supporting body 5 for the lower flange 6 of the carline, and having a vertical wall 7 extending upward integral with the body 5, wall 4 and main body l adapted to engage the side of the vertical flange 8 of the carline. As seen from, Figures 3 and 4 the main body l which rests upon the .top of ytheside plate is approximatelytwice the Width of the carline support 5 and is preferably secured to the side plate by two bolts 9 and l0 adjacent each end, and asf-one end of the main body tapers into vertical Wall 7 its shape andits engaging the outer side of the side plateby its down turned fla-ngel 3 with the vertical Wall 7 in contact With the vertical flange 8 of the oarline and the horizontal ange 6 secured tothe body 5 forms a bracket that not only anchors the end of the carline lto the side plate, but also resists the twisting on the c arline from the Weaving of the car.

Vhat I claim is:

l., A metal carline bracket having .a main body adapted `to embrace the ltop of a car side plate having an integral vertical portion adapted to engage the interiori ot the yside plateprovided Withintegral inwardly extending horizontal and vertical projections adaptedto support andl engage the horizontal and vertical membersof a carl line, said main body being of greater Width than the `Width of the carline and bending from one endinto the integral inwardly extending vertical portion.

2. A metal carline bracket having a main body adapted to embrace thetop of a car side plate and integral inwardly extending horizontal and vertical projections kadapted to support and engage the horizontal and vertical members of a carline below the top ofthe side plate, said vertical projection as it approaches the side plate bending away ronrthe carline into the portion oi the `main body adapted to rest on the top of the side plate.

3. A metal carline bracket having a main body adapted to embrace the topp'f a vcar side plate of greater Width'than the carline to be supported having the depending portion onthe interior of the side plate provided at one end of the bracket with a horizontal inward projection adapted to support and engage the horizontal portion of the carline and an intermediate vertical projection adapted to engage the vertical portion of the carline and departing therefrom adjacent the interior of the side plate to bend into the main body for the rest of its extent.

4. A pressed metal carline bracket comprising a flatportion adapted to engage and rest upon the top of a car side plate tor substantially twice the Width of the carline to be supported and engaged by the bracket and having a depending integral portion at one end adapted to engage the interior oi said side plate extending into a horizontal projection adapted to support and engage the horizontal portion of a carline and an intermediate vertical portion adapted to engage the vertical portion of said carline and integral With said horizontal, depending and Hat portions With the top edge bending intothe end of the flat portion opposite the depending portion.

CHARLES D. BONSALL. 

